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Google Removing Domain Names From Search Results Increases Internet User Vulnerability

Bill Hartzer

On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Google announced that they are beginning to remove the domain name from the mobile search results. Rather than displaying a URL in the search results or a domain name, Google has begun to display a website name or a website name and a breadcrumb of the website’s page.

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35 Speakers to See at NamesCon 2015

Bill Hartzer

From January 11 to January 15, 2015, the NamesCon 2015 domain name conference is being held in Las Vegas. ” In the “Global SEO and Domain Name Preference” session, I’ll be presenting some of the results of my extensive Search Engine Marketing Study (New gTLD vs.Com Domains).

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Domain SEO Service Registration Corp. Domain Registration Scam

Bill Hartzer

Unfortunately, there are still people out there, like Domain SEO Service Registration Corp., who feel that they can get away with offering “search engine submission” services. Search Engine Submission is a scam, and I’ve written about it before several times. Here’s some of the wording from their offer.

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Merry Christmas! A Final 2014 Weekly Update from Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer

Google’s CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA won’t stop spam bots, Best Buy Oops, ICANN hacked, Freebase is shutting down, and Apple’s mysterious domain names. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers organization that oversees internet domain names, has been hacked. ICANN Hacked.

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Google SERPs Say Instagram Post Made in 1970

Bill Hartzer

Related posts: Facebook Registers 21 Instagram Direct Domain Names In an offensive move, Facebook has registered twenty one new. Google Search Engines' So, then I checked the server header: HTTP/1.1·200·OK Google Cache Dates Updated: After a Month The Google cache date on most web sites have now.

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Pirate Bay Proxy Alternatives and Similar Websites and Apps

SocialFish

Back in 2017, the original Nyaa torrent site named for cat’s meow in Japanese shut down. In the wake of the shutdown, various forks of the site popped up, all using the Nyaa domain name. Recently, the site’s team has created the torrent cache iTorrents, which is used by multiple search engines. and Nyaa.cat.

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

It blew up in a private forum so to speak, a place where the general public (and the search engine crawlers) didn’t have access to: Facebook. In 2013, Google really turned Search Engine Optimization on its head and ‘shook really hard’ so to speak. And, as well, in 2015. But that’s not where it blew up.